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Once you have decided which articles are relevant to your topic, this is what you would need to do to locate the periodicals in which the articles appear.
  • First, look at the citation and identify the full title of the periodical, the volume and the date in which the article is published.
AUTHOR: Kidger, Neville.
TITLE: NASA science comes to Mir. (accounts from American astronaut Shannon Lucid)
SOURCE: Spaceflight v. 38 (Sept. '96) p. 294-5+
  • Then, check the CSUMB Journals List , in this case, Spaceflight, to find out if the CSUMB Library owns the periodical and the particular issue you have identified. Please note that we may own the title either in print or in full-text electronic format. Also, please note that if you try this now, you will be leaving the tutorial and will have to use the back button on your browser to return to this page

  • Finally, if the journal is available at CSUMB Library, you would go to the section of the library where periodicals are shelved and retrieve the article directly from the particular issue of Spaceflight or you would click on the link on the CSUMB Journal List that directs you to the electronic version of the periodical.